{"id":61412,"date":"2024-01-25T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/25\/kyoto-animation-fire-japan-man-shinji-aoba-sentenced-to-death-arson-anime-studio"},"modified":"2024-01-25T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:11:10","slug":"kyoto-anime-studio-fire-japanese-man-sentenced-to-death-for-arson-attack-that-killed-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61412","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto anime studio fire: Japanese man sentenced to death for arson attack that killed 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan media reported Shinji Aoba held a grudge against the studio when he doused the entrance in petrol and set it ablaze in 2019<\/p>\n<p>A court in Japan has sentenced to death a man convicted of murdering 36 people in an arson attack on an animation studio in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/18\/dead-suspected-arson-attack-kyoto-animation-japan\">attack on Kyoto Animation<\/a>, better known as KyoAni, sent shock waves through Japan, where violent crime is rare, and stunned fans of the studio\u2019s output around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/25\/kyoto-animation-fire-japan-man-shinji-aoba-sentenced-to-death-arson-anime-studio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan media reported Shinji Aoba held a grudge against the studio when he doused the entrance in petrol and set it ablaze in 2019A court in Japan has sentenced to death a man convicted of murdering 36 people in an arson attack on an animation studio in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61413,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61412\/revisions\/61413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}